Nominations
Competition Terms and Conditions
- Only members can participate. Register Here.
- Follow the theme
- Maximum 3 artworks per competition/artist
- Clearly indicate the title of each submitted artwork
- Clearly include measurements/technique/execution date
- Please send FULL PAGE images
- Please remove any watermark, logo, or any identifying marks.
- Include a SHORT presentation of each artwork.
- Include an Artistic Biography in all submission forms
Speed
"Speed" in painting has two potential paths: it either stimulates visual perception in a dynamic sense or it is the trace of rapid movement. The former involves the physiology of the observer; the latter tickles their experience, showing on the canvas the effect of a past event that is relived.
When I was a Child...
"When I was a Child" is the universal return to childhood: a protected place, a refuge, the last moment of serenity before bursting into the tumult of the world. An emotion that belongs, I imagine, to the majority of living beings: both those who are born and those who have completed their delicate development in an egg.
A Broken World
"A Broken World," as the title itself suggests, should not look at the almost narrative description of the contemporary socio-environmental disaster. It is a symbolic representation where the technique of Art, in balance between a realistic vision—the factual data—and moral shock, renders the emotion of discomfort.
Faces and Portraits
"Faces and Portraits" does not necessarily have to be limited to people's faces. A portrait is the will to preserve memory, out of affection or recognition. Faces, on the other hand, allow for a symbolic or simply aesthetic evaluation, even to the point of the anonymity of multitudes, indistinct crowds.
My Ideal World
My Ideal World" The ideal world can belong to heterogeneous and conflicting universes: there is the introverted and protective one in which the Artist recognises and takes refuge in, the more aggressive one imagined by marketing experts for advertising, and the one of propaganda, collective and intrinsically totalitarian.
Leaves and Flowers
"Leaves and Flowers" allow for different choices: admiring and rendering the precious beauty of botany, even in a metaphorical sense of the human experience; telling our relationship with the plant world; using their complex and heterogeneous forms for structural, geometric, and almost abstract research.
How's the weather?
"How's the weather?" Climate changes are, unfortunately, objective realities with disastrous effects. Artists are, however, free to blame humans (anthropogenic cause) or not (simple natural mutations). The important thing is to bring into contemporary Art the awareness of what we are forced to endure today.
Warm Colours
"Warm Colours" is a moment of celebration in which Art, whether abstract, informal, or realistic, plays with what pleases and stimulates us the most. From ripe fruit to the hues of comfort, from the most intense sunsets to the fire of the brazier, from sensual smiles to autumn forests, the magic of warm colours gives everyone's brush the greatest freedom.
